girls:
1.2k births since 1917
#4478 (22nd percentile)
boys:
93k births since 1880
#321 (93rd percentile)
overall:
94.2k births since 1880
#714 (91st percentile)
The name Andy is the #714 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 94,232 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #321 (93.0% percentile) for all time with 92,988 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,478 (21.6% percentile) for all time with 1,244 births since 1917.
Andy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls).
The name Andy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.4% of babies named Andy were boys.
For boys, Andy reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 77.4% percentile (ranked #198) with 906 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 906 births per million (ranked 77.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Andy ranks #446 for boys (51.1% percentile) with 329 births per million, which is 36.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Andy reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #908) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Andy ranks #916 for girls (3.3% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 89.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Andy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Andy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Andy is pronounced as AN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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